Finding Your Passions By Michelle Sweeny

Where does our motivation come from? What makes us want to strive for more?It comes from our PASSION, and with out it what are we left with? We are left with our lives in a seemingly endless spin of unhappiness. When we no longer have passion in our lives we no longer want to strive to make our lives thrive.This I understand clearly after 15 years.In the early 1990s it took me five years to muster 34 credits at my local community college. I didn’t have the passion for formal schooling at the time. Yes, five years, but it wasn’t until my grandfather insisted that I transfer to a university that I started to completely understand how I felt about school and what my passion was for school. At that time, it took me four years to finish my undergraduate degree. I worked full time; I went to school fulltime taking full advantage of the university’s online programs and was even able to be inducted into the honor society while raising my first daughter. PASSION.After I graduated, I de

How to Develop the Genius within You By Vin Bhat

Inside each one of us there’s a seed of greatness, a seed of genius. You are a special and complete human being and so is everyone else. You have a seed of genius within you.“Every child is born a genius” – Albert Einstein.Now, to what extent will you make use of your genius is totally up to you. You deserve a lot in life and you have all the power and ability to achieve everything you want.Desire: How can one develop that genius in oneself and achieve all that he or she deserves? Starting point of all achievements is desire. You’ve got to have a strong want for your own success. Many times we are afraid to desire the things we want because we think that it’s beyond our means. Believe in your heart that you are capable of achieving any good thing. By knowing that you have a seed of greatness in you, you are free to desire for all the good things you really want.Faith: Faith is believing in the unseen. There’s a saying that “fake it till you make it”. When you drop a pen or an object

Abundance or Scarcity: What Belief Do You Choose to Engage? By Leanne Hoagland-Smith

For the last several years, I have included on my email signature the following salutation “Peace and Abundance.” This is a daily reminder that my success begins with how I engage my beliefs. For I know that it is my beliefs that drive my behaviors.During a conference, one of my mentors shared a very simple exercise that I now use with my clients to demonstrate the power of how our beliefs guide what we shall receive. He asked those in the audience to take a sheet of paper and on the left side write the letter B for Birth and on the right side write the letter D for Death. Upon completion of this task, he then asked, “What was in between?” Answers varied from life to troubles. In his coy and quiet southern accent, he acknowledged every answer as being good, but not quite the one he was seeking. Eventually, he stated that what existed in-between birth and death was “just a matter of inconvenience.”How many times have you visited the local gas station in the morning, swiped your cred

Life Focus: What Does Your Life Say? By Bernice Lupo

“Imagine a funeral. The preacher’s giving the eulogy. And suddenly, the ‘guest of honor’ pops up out of the coffin!It really happened. Talayi George Sogcwe of South Africa decided to fake his death as a test.‘I wanted to know what people say about me when I’m dead,’ he said. ‘I’m satisfied they spoke the truth about me and not lies.’George says he’s gonna keep the coffin for his real funeral….which may be held sooner than he thinks, if he keeps pulling stunts like this!” (cited from “Strange World”, Campus Life, Vol. 56, no. 4.)That’s certainly one way to find out what people will say about you when you have left this life! I guess the question is, “How desperate are you to find out?”As morbid as it is, this is a great Life Coaching question! Not whether or not you are willing to fake your own death to find out what people think of you but what do you want to be said about you at your funeral?To ask yourself that question is to explore what you want your life to stand for. It

Great Things Cannot Happen Without Change By Penny Phang

If you always do what you’ve always done, you’ll always get what you’ve always got.It’s critical that we realize our lives can change at any moment. Realistically, there will come a time when our everyday life will suddenly be altered; the only question is when. It could happen when you least expect it. You might get a dreaded phone call, come up with a brilliant idea, loose your job, meet a new friend, discover a new career direction, or fall in love. You just never know, and this is one of the reasons why life is so exciting and mysterious.I know it’s not easy to shift out of what we do and how we do it, nor is it easy to shift our views in order to see new things in place of the old. It is often frightening and confusing to make a shift away from the familiar in order to embrace the unknown. Yet it is necessary energy we must apply in order to grow. No matter how challenging, difficult, or hard it may seem, shifts are necessary to free ourselves from the conf

How to Interpret Your Dreams By Nicole Rivera

As many different people there are on this planet, that is how many ways in which a dream can be interpreted.When I first started exploring the world of dreams I fell upon Edgar Cayce (1877 -1945). Cayce was known as the "sleeping prophet" because of his ability to decipher individuals dreams while in a trance state. He had a seventh grade eduation, was a seer, a clairvoyant and is well-known for predicting such events as the World Wars and the Great Depression. I studied and used his methods for quite some time and they were my starting point into the world of dreams. Later, I became fascinated with the complex works of Carl G. Jung (1875 - 1961) which, for me, took the meaning of dreams to entirely new and exciting levels. His ideas about how dreams are the gateway to the individuation process motivated me to look deeper into their meanings and to hold them in a special place.If you decide to start your journey with Edgar Cayce you will find that he offered technique

Write Goals, Say Prayers, and See Your Successful Future By Ken Donaldson

Would you like to have more success in your life? Yes, I’m sure that you do! That being the case, I have an invitation and a challenge for you. Are you up for it? Okay, here we go…We are all multi-sensory beings, meaning that we all have the sensory connections through seeing, tasting, smelling, speaking, hearing and feeling. These are all separate channels that activate different parts of the brain. The more of our brain that is awakened, or activated, the more places in our brain we are imprinting messages.The key to being successful is to believe in your success and act upon that belief. Many people hinder their success because they don’t believe in themselves, and therefore, they do not take the actions that would lead to successful outcomes and successful results. But you’re different, right??!!So, this is what to do to imprint success messages and motivators in and on your brain, and therefore, into your life:1.) Write and recite the primary goals of your life everyday. Write 1

Putting the Action Into ATTR-ACTION By Ken Donaldson

Are you familiar with the “Attraction Model” of living?Essentially, it means that when you live your life with very specific intention, and in integrity with that intention, then you will attract to you what it is that you are intending.Being intentional means to be clear and specific about what it is that you want. It also means to be purposeful and to “live on purpose”.Having integrity means being congruent with that intention, and it is your “walk” matching your “talk”. Your “walk” in this case means going into action, which is also the last five letters of attrACTION.Yes, you will have to go into action to get what you want.Want to start or add to a business, start a new relationship or enhance an existing one, or add to your personal growth?Regardless of what “It” is, “It” will happen if you follow this formula, and only if you go into action.Start by getting clear about what you want. Write down specifically your goals and objectives. Make a time line that directs you to take a

Millionaire Mindset: We Become What We Think About By Dennis Parmelee

In studying wealth, we learn the power of using our mind to attract either success or failure. By visualizing what we want to happen - or conversely what we fear will happen - we employ a mental magnet that helps to manifest our thoughts. To get rich, the first step is to make sure you have a millionaire mindset."Many wealth counselors stress the importance of positive thinking— and we agree with them. Whether thoughts of poverty or wealth, you can be sure that your "magnet" is working perfectly. The results of your present thinking will soon be seen. If you have a millionaire mindset, those results will probably be everything you've hoped for.In The Psychology of Achievement, success trainer Brian Tracy has distilled the essence of Napolean Hill's classic advice in Think and Grow Rich with this concept articulated as well as we have yet seen:"Any thought, plan, goal, or idea, held continuously in our conscious mind must bebrought about into reality by the Super Conscious Mind… Do yo